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I Got an F in Fear101

The boss of my book team always decides I’m healthy when I start ruminating in this blog about women.

Or, as he unkindly puts it, “imaginary women.”

Nobody who works with me seems to have the slightest fear of me or worry themselves sick about whether I might be offended. Folks who worked for me in Washington and elsewhere, people I had the power to fire in a minute, felt the same way.

Two people in Washington offered to take pay CUTS to work for me.

Niccolo Machiavelli considered an important question in his classic book “The Prince.” He asked, “Is it better for a leader to be loved or to be feared by those he leads?” He concluded it was better to be feared.

I flunked that test big time.

I scared a lot of people in my rough life, but never anyone I led or bossed. I don’t know if they loved me, but they sure as hell weren’t afraid of me. The lady who anchors my book team just sent around a note that instructed our people about what not to bother “little Bob” about.

I LOVED it!

Sorry, Niccolo, I failed your test, and it’s too late for me to pass it now. If I tried to get my crowd to be scared of me now, they would just laugh and tell me to go sleep it off.

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We Need Sergeants!

In every army, the sergeants are the ones who make the rubber meet the road. Everything is just paperwork until the sergeants get hold of it.

I doubt that there has ever been a serious army that didn’t have more generals than it needed.

Often there is not even a shortage of privates. At the beginning of the Civil War, so many men volunteered that most of them had to be turned away. This happens a lot, though usually there is a shortage of privates.

But every army always has a desperate lack of sergeants.

Sergeants are the backbone of every army, and not just the less important armies that wear uniforms. When you have to get the military into action, the more important armies have failed. War is hideously expensive in every way, and every war is a direct result of the failure of the thinkers and doers who should have prevented it. Those are the far more important armies.

Sergeants are the people who keep the forces in hand. Sergeants are the ones who make orders real. Nothing really happens until the orders get to the sergeants and they make it happen.

I desperately need sergeants for my book, Why Johnny Can’t Think.

In the important armies, you say, “We need to get the book out.” You do not have to tell the sergeants that they need to read the book, then put quotes for it in news groups, contact their friends, find contacts.

I keep begging whitakeronline readers: “Please look at readbob.com

People keep asking me what they can do. I say, “Please look at readbob.com

They then ask me, “What can I do?”

I repeat: in the important armies, you say, “We need to get the book out.” You do not have to tell the sergeants that they need to read the book, then put quotes for it in news groups, contact their friends, find contacts.

We are trying to reach millions of young people, private schoolers, home schoolers, the millions of young people who are paying off their college debts and know they have been cheated. We could win over millions of young people rather than waiting for a bloody revolution in the future. We could be the important army.

But we need sergeants!

No officer tells the sergeant, “Now you go out and get your men together and you tell them to get their guns” That is what they do. They know how to do that better than I do.

Are there any sergeants out there?

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Making Progress

Someone posted the following on Stormfront. He is right:

“Sales of Why Johnny Can’t Think (Amazon.com Sales Rank: 794) has zoomed past some of our enemies’ books such as:”

A long list follows, including one book by Alan Dershowitz

From nowhere, we’re making a start!

At the end of his list, he adds:

“Bob’s book wasn’t touched by any major publisher yet is outselling books loved by the left. Can’t you picture them squirming? Make them squirm some more and have a good laugh at the same time.”

He’s right about that, too.

Please go to readbob.com and help me out.

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Right-Wing ‘Contacts’

I am a lousy diplomat. That’s why I was a staffer and ghosted books.

My forte is plain talk. People say they like that, but in the real world they hate it and they don’t care what a politician does as long as he remembers their name and says what they want to hear.

Then they bitch about the politicians they elect.

The e-mail I sent out below is an example of what one should not do if he has spent a lifetime fighting side by side with people and doing things for their cause and finally needs the help he has earned.

I have X in the place of each name. Two of them are national columnists and you would recognize at least one of the other names immediately. But I have been on the road for a month, and gotten nothing for it. I am exhausted and pissed, and that is what my Blog is for.

My WOL readers have been just as bad.

X and X,

I begged you for addresses to send FREE books to you in Stormfront and you ignored me. But you are not alone.

I begged two people I have worked with for years, X and X for help. I put X in my 1982 anthology for St. Martin’s Press and he uses my columns in every issue of X. I put X in that anthology when he was a private school teacher here in South Carolina.

You can see what right-wing “contacts” are worth in the letter I sent to X and X below:

X and X,

I have a great team of young people working on the book and a young genius for a webmaster. But they keep asking me about my “contacts.”

I want to send him X’s e-mails to show them what my “contacts” are worth. But X is the best. He at least bothers to reply to me.

X, can I do that?

(Another) X hasn’t mentioned me or even contacted me on the book.

I don’t know if I am up to “begging” X, as X recommended.

I can’t even get their own addresses out of people I have done favors for and who asked me for book copies.

I am now starting an op-ed factory with some excellent young writers. Meanwhile the old farts talk to each other abut “reaching young people.”

It’s a bit embarrassing for me, but it is a good lesson for the young people who are coming to me for leadership. One asked me if there was a support network for young people on the right. My answer was a simple: “No.” They’re busy talking to each other and being Big Guys and being busy, busy, busy.

Bob (Whitaker)

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No Need to Restate the Obvious

Please, have mercy on an a old man! My latest book, “Why Johnny Can’t Think, America’s Professor-Priesthood,” does NOT “show there is leftist bias on campus.”

I recently got some clippings from two different female relatives that “say what you said,” that there is a leftist bias on college campuses.”

No, I did NOT “say that there is a leftist bias on campus.” No, Einstein did NOT “say that the speed of light is real fast,” No, Isaac Newton did NOT “say there is something called gravity.”

What would Einstein have done if someone had said “I think light moves real slow. You got to prove light moves fast.” He would have called the loony bin. What would Isaac Newton have done if somebody said, “There ain’t no such thing as gravity.” He would have acted like the guy didn’t exist and then hit him in the face if the fellow got in his way.

I do not try to prove that light moves real fast, or that gravity exists or that college campuses have a fanatical leftist bias. If you actually open the pages of “Why Johnny Can’t Think,” you will find that I say that that is the kind of thing dumbass respectable conservatives dedicate books to, not intelligent people.

Every sane person knows that light moves fast. Every sane person knows there is such a thing as gravity. Every sane person know that colleges are fanatically biased to the left.

PLEASE don’t insult me by saying I am trying to prove any of those things. Please don’t send me forwards and news paper clippings to show how morons are trying to prove these things.

No intelligent person will spend one minute “saying what you said, that there is a leftist bias on college campuses.”

If you waste time debating that, you are too much of a fool to get any real point made.

If you want to see how to cover that whole argument in two minutes, you will want to READ “Why Johnny Can’t Think.”

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